The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-09-07
ALOOK AT THE FIELD
Tks Time For the Democracy to Put on Thsir
Fighting Clothes.
fhe CutloOk-The Advantages of Position
Republican FIaPdOOdIs-Tile Res
cued Public Domain, Etc.
WAsHIEeToN, August 81.


the first fight that the Democrats have
made with a fair and free chance since
1850. 1t will be the first battle In which
the Democrats have not had all the patron
age of the government TO contend with in
addition TO all the bood.e OF the national
banks, the monopolists and the railroads,
telegraphs and all conceivable shapes of
aggregated capital. Not only will Ii BE-
the tirst battle made under these circum-
stances siuce 1850, but it will be the first
contest in which the Democratic party has
not had to contend against prejudice,
inuendo, suspicion and the ghost of the
confederate debt, the shadows of rebel
brigsdiers,. compensation for slaves
and and other political , hObgoobIins
litical debsuchees coDjared up from the
depths of their own foul stomachs. At
every election the Democrats have had to
face the most direfnl prophecies of class
Vi corTUpt and evil political prophets who
filed the people with the most lurid pre-
dictioDs of financial bankruptcy THROUGH
u the oouttry, and added to their
sbavery most shameful abuse Of the con-
fcsnce Of the poor ignorant and credulous
osTkey by stories of his return to slavery,
aud ty exciting the race prejudice kept
t. dslkty es.ranged from his best friends.
sad flea his belly with the east wind of
promises and deceived him by the delusion
lhnt 2 could become the governing Lower
over much superior class, both In point
- irte i1eeuce and wealth. With none
of these things will the Democratic party
have to contend in 1888 The logic of
events have branded the Republican
politicians Is 8 set of liars, Woo for
years have been obtaining money
and Office under false pretences; who have
been singing hymns of the Lord while they
have been ferYently serving the devil.
They were trusted because in the tina of
war party held the reius OF power whose
name they assumed and who good deed
in prosecuting the war they claimed all the
credit for. Of course, the honest masses of
the Republican party are not responsible
fer the mjsdeeds of their leaders, only so
TAR es they endorse them by their votes
Some excuse can be made for their votes in
the past. The vebemence with which the
Republican leaders predicted the evils OF
the damned, and the honest but hyDocriti-
cal faces they assumed while telling OF the
vials of wrath that would pour out on the
nation if a Democratic administration
should ever get the reins of Government
was calculated to deceive the very elect,
and did deceive many honest people. Bat
if after four years of such an administra-
ton that the Democrats have given the
country, they continue to endorse party
which has been convicted Of grand larceny
and persistent lying, then they becOm
participants in the crime, and are not TO
be commiserated for the manner in which
their confidenc has been abused.
The Democratic party will 60 into the
battle next year with an immense advant-
age. AL the political fap.poo1le that has
been used to deceive the people for q
quarter of a century will fall harmless on
the ears of the people who have been 50
frequently deceived. The Republican
y nr1rr left
hopes to deceive the people, and that is the
cry of free trade. 1t passes the COM
prehension of intelligent people that hon-
est men can be longer bambooZed by such
silly stuff, in theface of the facts. Bat It
is still more astonishing that they VIII
lieten to a party of men who for years
has aroused their fears and prcjudices, and
who have been proven a thousand times
to be false prophets. Yet there are doubt
lees honest people who will be found TO
listen with creduloRs ears to their talk
about the interests of the working men,
while at the same time they are taxing
everything that the laboring msn and the
farmer uses. and propose to give US free
gTog and free pipe. Surely the lessons
which the people have learned of Repnb-
lican duplicity should put them on their
guard how they listen to the appeals and
statements of such clsss Of politicians.
For these reasons say that the time has
come for the boys to swing into line, aud
be prepared for the grand charge all along
the line. / am well aware that there is
dissatisfaction in some quarters and the gal
liant boys do not think that they have co.
all their Jealous services deserve. But it
will be well to remember that II ia not all
of politics to hold Office, but there is some
thing to the honest Democrat in the proud
consciousness that he has aided IN bring
ing the country to an entire reconciliation
and utter oblivion of the angry passions OF
the war. If the Democratic party had no
other result to present TO the people then
the entire unihcation and pacjhsstioa OF
the country, it would be enough to merit
the confidence of the people and would ca
title it TO the thanks of all patriots with
| out distinction of party, the world over. It
| is significant fact that the chief result OF
the Democratic Administration has bsen
! an entire restoration of confidence in
| the South, and confidence at home
and abroad in the security OF life
ard property in that section, where hith-
| erto the vile cslCmnies of q sectional party
has kept capital away, and has prevented
| the settlement of people, who were seeking
new homes. The South has made marvel
| Gus progress since the Democratic Admin
istration, and is fast becoming the rival OF
the busy North in its manufacturing in
| dustries. This is because an era of con-
fidence has sprung up and there is now no
longer any doubt that the war is naally
and eteTnally over.
The shadows of coming events show that
all there win be left OF the G. o. ?. next
year will be It's rot on the tariff, aud howl
| of idiocy that will be lame echos of viper
GUS hates Of the Forakers, Fairchilds and
Tuttles. and most hypoeritical wall about
the CIVIL Service of the country which that
party has debauched for q quarter OF q
century. Against this impotent and imbe
cile rage against this idiotic drivel, the
Democratic party will present clean aud
honest Civil Service and a land policy that
has struck terror into land grab5ers aud
pirates. It will chow a record of many
j millions of acres of the public domain
thrown open to the actual settler which
has been dragged from the greedy and
mammoth nav of the land thieves who
have been tbs pats aud boon companion
| of the Republican party 1t viii show az
unprecedented record in favor of thi
soldier, and will refute by the actual re
corded facts the threadbsTe lii
so often repeated by Rspubli
cen politicians that the interests o
the soldier would not be safe in the hand
of the Democratic party. IL in the facs o
this record Cleveland does not have vic
tory equal to that OF Monroe at this sscOni
election, then it will be because lying
still successful in American politics ant
the average voter hiss not The power to dis